583 Quotes by Pablo Picasso

I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it.

Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth.

Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects

Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more.

But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown-a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest.

A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers.